When plans for a memorial to Bomber Command in London were first proposed,
they were met with horror in Germany. But now, after years of negotiations,
the German people have given it their blessing.

Helma Orosz, the Mayor of Dresden, where 25,000 civilians died in the
firestorm that followed Allied bombing raids in 1945, has welcomed an
inscription remembering all bombing victims, added to the memorial after
initial German objections. “It is a further gesture of reconciliation
between Britain and Germany,” she said.

The additional inscription on the memorial, which is to be unveiled by the
Queen in London today,